Only a fraction of London's monumental inscriptions survive today.[1] It can be helpful to search surveys of church cemeteries made in the past, when more gravestones were intact, and before churches were demolished.

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Up to the mid-1800s, most London burials took place in churchyards. For further information on these burial grounds, see specific London parish pages. Due to overcrowding, municipal cemeteries, located outside of the historic City of London, such as New Bunhill Fields, became popular.[2]

In addition to the city churches, other popular burial grounds in medieval and early modern London included:

Beginning in 1854, thousands of east-enders were buried in Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey (also known as the London Necropolis). It is the largest cemetery in the UK and one of the largest in the world. Until World War II, funeral trains ran from Waterloo station directly to the Cemetery.[4]Brookwood Cemetery database at Find A Grave. (614+ entries) More than 235,000 people have been buried there.[5] The official Brookwood Cemetery site offers a grave search for a fee.